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Edition 2, 2009

 

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Blue Silver (+/+ - pb/pb)
Blue Ghost (S/+ - pb/pb)
Blue Zebra (Z/+ - pb/pb) or (Z/Z - pb/pb)
Blue Smokey (Sm/+ - pb/pb)
Blue Chocolate (Sm/Sm - pb/pb)
Blue Marble (M/M - pb/pb) or (M/gM - pb/pb)
Platinum (g/g - pb/pb)
Platinum Marble (gM/gM - pb/pb) or (gM/g - pb/pb)
Paraiba (S/S - pb/pb)
Paraiba Smokey (S/S – pb/pb – Sm/+)
Paraiba Chocolate (S/S – pb/pb – Sm/Sm)
Paraiba Sunset (g/g - S/S -pb/pb) or Blue Sunset. which do you prefer?
Paraiba Koi (Gm/g - S/S - pb/pb) or (gM/gM - S/S - pb/pb) can not call this blue koi.
Paraiba Blue Koi (+/Gm - S/S - pb/pb)

Pinoy Angelfish may carry a number of dark gene combinations.

Pinoy (D/+ -pb/pb) or (D/g - pb/pb) or (D/D - pb/pb)

Pinoy Ghost (D/+ - pb/pb-S/+)

Pinoy Zebra (D/+ - pb/pb-Z/+)

Pinoy Clown (D/+ - pb/pb - S/Z)

Pinoy Smokey (D/+ - pb/pb - Sm/+)

Joint Release  5^th July 2009

 

The British Angelfish Association, NewS.A.S.  and TWAF. 

 

The New Society for Angelfish Standards, The British Angelfish Association and The World Angelfish Forum welcomes and accepts the first Major change to Angelfish Genetic Standards since Dr Norton’s work.

 

The Philippine Blue Gene (pb)

Up until recently, and causing some confusion this gene had been referred to as Platinum Blue.

To reduce confusion between genotype and phenotype naming, the Developing Breeder of these fish, Ken Kennedy of the Philippines, has now requested that name be changed to Philippine Blue.

 

Platinum Blue should no longer be used as the name for the pb gene.

 

In its homozygous form pb/pb the Philippine Blue gene codes for blue color or iridescent blue and where possible the phenotype name “BLUE” should be used as the preferred name for most of the fish it is bred into.  (See the list below)

Hence where some were calling +/+ - pb pb  Platinum Silver or Platinum Blue it should be referred to now as Blue Silver, similarly a fish which carries Sm/Sm – pb/pb should be referred to as a Blue Chocolate.

 

A fish that carries both the Gold and Philippine Blue genes in homozygous form g/g – pb/pb expresses as a white shiny platinum looking fish and should still be referred to as Platinum.

Similarly, any fish crossed with a Platinum g/g – pb/pb should still retain the word Platinum in its Phenotype name. That is, a Platinum crossed with a Zebra g/g – pb/pb – Z/+ should be referred to as a Platinum Zebra.

 

note – the title Platinum Blue should not be used in any combination to describe the phenotype of a fish.

 

For further details and lists of preferred phenotype names involving Angelfish that carry the Philippine Blue gene in its homozygous form pb/pb please refer to the,

The New Society for Angelfish Standards peterbottle@hotmail.com

The British Angelfish Association  http://www.tbaa.org.uk

The World Angelfish Forum  www.angelfishkisses.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Platinum Marble

Blue Silver

Platinum

Blue Smokey Leopard

Platinum

A Platinum veil, A Blue Smokey Leopard Pearlscale and A Blue Smokey Leopard

Pinoy Clown Pearlscale Veil

Platinum Veil

The British Angelfish Association

 

News release Philippine Blue

While the Philippine Blue gene in it’s homozygous state pb/pb will code for blue color and heightened iridescence, in it’s heterozygous form +/pb it will not.

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Paraiba Family

Pinoy

Pinoy

Pinoy Ghost

Pinoy Clown

Blue Albino Pearlscale